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Chapter 327 67. Anthony Bell

"I met her in a birch forest. She was wearing a floral dress."

Solar Ring · 9th ring area
Flying cars passed by the window.The curtains were drawn to block the traffic outside.

The man in the white suit returned to his desk and sat down.The ID card on the table reads his identity: Psychologist.

"Please continue." He said to the figure on the sofa.

The young man on the sofa continued: "She was wearing a floral dress, I thought—"

"Please wait a moment." The man stopped the youth, wrote something in the note, and then drew a circle. "Does the skirt pattern have any special meaning?"

"She later said it was her favorite dress."

"Understood, please continue."

The young man continued: "I thought she was playing, but I didn't know she lived in the woods until I saw her picking wild vegetables."

"She lives in the woods?"

"Well, her home is in the birch forest."

"Well, it seems that your girlfriend is a rich man."

The young man pursed his lips and made a smile: "I was just as curious as you are now, so I went over to strike up a conversation. She...she is really a beautiful girl."

The man asked, "Do you have a picture of her?"

"Of course." The young man replied.Taking a photo from his breast pocket, he leaned forward and handed it to the man.

The psychiatrist took the photo, looked at it carefully for a few seconds, and then looked at the young man.

"Her heart is infinitely more beautiful than her appearance."

"Oh, sorry." The psychiatrist smiled apologetically and returned the photo.

"It's nothing." The young man took it, and put it back in his breast pocket with caring tenderness: "Can I continue talking?"

"of course."

"After we met, I often went to play with her. A few months later, we fell in love. She is a gentle and considerate girl, the kind who can arrange everything properly..." The young man danced and said, as if this is the only way to describe her Show how good the girls are.

"and then?"

"We had three years of bliss and got engaged."

The man unconsciously taps the pen cap in his hand to take notes.During this, the young man's expression gradually became depressed: "I can't forget the way she smiled at me the day she tried on the wedding dress. Being able to put the ring on her hand may be the happiest moment in my life. And then... a week after the wedding She died before. Died in that attack on the Church of Nature, I think you should have seen the news."

"Yes." The man's eyes fell on the wedding ring on the young man's middle finger, he paused, and got to the point: "According to your file description, you saw her again half a month ago, right?"

The young man nodded.

"Can you describe it?"

The young man paused for a moment, as if he was sorting out his thoughts, and then said: "It was morning, I heard some movement in the kitchen. I walked out of the bedroom, saw her making breakfast, and then went to clean up the house."

"Are you sure this isn't your hallucination?"

"I ate my breakfast," said the young man. "After that life was like before. Except only I could see her. Her parents were worried about me, so they introduced you to me."

"So is she here too?" The man looked left and right for the invisible girl.

"She doesn't usually get up this early."

"Okay." The man closed the notebook and said to him seriously: "The preliminary diagnosis is that you have hysteria. The longing for your girlfriend has caused you to hypnotize yourself in a subtle way. This kind of psychological suggestion makes you have the illusion that your girlfriend is back. "

"Probably." The young man said calmly. "But I don't want to change that."

"I need to remind you that hysteria is only in the middle stage now, once it reaches the late stage. This situation will cause great trouble to your life, and you may even have schizophrenia."

The young man pursed his lips, but did not answer.

"It seems that you have already decided. But as a doctor, there are some things I must do. Mr. Anthony, please put this in your room, it will record your daily life. Remember to bring it next time."

"I will."

……

Two weeks later.

"Your mental state is not very good." The man noticed a great change in him.

"This one?" Anthony pointed to his stubble and said with a smile, "She likes it."

Then Anthony thought of something and returned the video recorder to the doctor from his pocket.

The man put it into the holographic screen, and then adjusted it to one-way and mute.

Time passed by every minute and every second, except that the man occasionally manipulated the rhythm of the picture.

A few minutes later, he looked away and asked Anthony: "Have you seen this video?"

"I won't read it."

The man put away the video and looked at Anthony: "I suggest you receive hospital treatment."

Anthony was the only one in the video.He speaks to the air, he cooks the meals and tidies up the room.The invisible girl never existed.

Anthony shook his head: "This is my choice. Then come here first, and I will come to you if there is a need."

He left the clinic, took the elevator downstairs and boarded the spaceship.

"Is he persuading you to destroy me again?"

On the co-pilot, the girl in a floral dress spoke.

"I don't want to argue..." Anthony rubbed his forehead.

She hugged Anthony and said softly, "I'm sorry...I just don't want you to think I'm an illusion."

"I know." Anthony breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at her.

"We go home."

……

two months later.

Anthony came to the psychological clinic.

"She disappeared."

"When did it start?"

"The morning before yesterday."

"Did she say goodbye to you?"

Anthony shook his head.

"Did anything happen before this?"

"She began to lose her temper often, and she told me afterwards that she seemed unconscious at the time. A few days before she disappeared, she said that she didn't want to hurt me..."

Men often exhale: "As a listener, I feel sorry. But as a therapist, I want to congratulate you."

He stretched out his hand.

"You recovered."

……

Anthony walks out of the clinic.Fake sunny glare.

He didn't know what to do for a while, and stood blankly at the door.

[Death is a disease.Join us in defeating death. 】

The exaggerated advertising words came from the airship in the sky.

Anthony looked up.

……

"Great story."

In the interview room, Joyce nodded.

"Let me ask a question." On the other seat of the interviewer, a blond petite girl with an arrogant expression crossed her chest and sneered, "How did she fall in love with you?"

Anthony, who is slightly plump and has a bushy beard, said: "I was not like this before. She said to me, 'Anthony, if you are delicate on the inside, make your appearance rough. If you are hot on the inside, be quiet and peaceful. It will make those idiots who judge people by their appearance suffer greatly."

"So you are like a fat middle-aged old man now." The girl said sarcastically. "Evil, and a disgusting beard."

Anthony just smiled and didn't refute.He asked Joyce: "Can humans really live forever..."

He saw that Joyce was the leader of the men.

"There is no doubt about it," Joyce replied.

"After death, will consciousness enter another world..."

"I don't know." Joyce shook his head.

In Anthony's gradually disappointed look, he said another sentence.

……

"But just as we can't prove that the afterlife exists, we can't prove that the afterlife doesn't exist either."

What Joyce said at that time rang in my ears.The blood on the chest stained the red shirt, and a group of soldiers appeared in sight.And soon, these were gradually replaced by a piece of white light.

All the sounds disappeared, and I don't know how long after that, a rustling sound of the woods being blown by the wind came to my ears.

He saw a birch forest and a girl in a floral dress.

The girl looked to this side, raised her toes and waved her arms, and the breeze blew her hair.

Anthony smiled and walked towards her.

(End of this chapter)